Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Inconvenient facts are papered over.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. The Things They Do For Love Harvard Business Review, 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Anyone would be inspired by the story of Nick Woodman, the CEO of GoPro, a $2.5B The first camera comes out in 2004. By 2013, GoPro, with a mission to “capture life’s most exciting moments,” has the best-selling camera in the world and around $1 billion in yearly sales. company that makes wearable HD video cameras.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. Why not strategically allow some of your best talent to go outside for new skills and capabilities, and then lasso them back in?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito may be demonstrating that concept in real time with his recent actions after the release of the new Honda Civic quickly fell short of expectations. Honda quickly followed up by announcing a new release for 2013, a year ahead of the original plan. In 2004, Leidich, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

” In the same month SoftBank of Japan committed to investing $10 billion into India over the next several years and CEO Masayoshi Son proved his seriousness by pouring the first billion into an Indian e-commerce company (Snapdeal) and a car-sharing service (Olacabs). But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. We need CEOs like you to take the lead as responsible citizens in articulating a vision of the social investments required for the next generation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. Yet with all its foreign cash, Apple borrowed over $62 billion in 2013–2015 to do buybacks rather than repatriate its profits and pay U.S.

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